Police arrest nine over Indian bridge collapse, toll reaches 134

MORBI, India, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Indian police arrested nine people on Monday, including ticketing clerks and contractors, as they investigate the collapse of a foot bridge in which at least 134 people, including many children, were killed.

CCTV footage from just before the collapse showed a group of young men taking photos while others tried to rock the suspension bridge in Morbi from side to side, before they tumbled into the river below as the cables gave way.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIndia, WTF?

Palestinians: Why Are Attacks on Christians Being Ignored?

A series of violent incidents in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, and the nearby towns of Beit Jala and Beit Sahour, have left Christians worried about their safety and future under the Palestinian Authority (PA).

Many Christians living in these communities are complaining that the Palestinian Authority is not doing enough to punish those who attack churches and Christian-owned businesses. The perpetrators are Muslims who make up the majority of the population in the Bethlehem area.

Earlier this year, Palestinian Evangelical Pastor Johnny Shahwan was arrested by the PA security forces on charges of “promoting normalization” with Israel.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Persecution Of Christians

Russia targets Ukraine’s hydroelectric dams with wave of missile attacks

Russia has launched a wave of cruise missiles at hydroelectric dams and other critical infrastructure across Ukraine, with explosions reported near the capital, Kyiv, and in at least 10 other cities and regions.

Ukraine’s air command said it shot down 44 out of 50 enemy rockets. Video footage suggested that several missiles were intercepted in the skies around Kyiv, soon after 8am local time. Air raid sirens went off nationally, with citizens told to seek shelter.

Ouchy!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Freedom Convoy Inquiry: Sloly denied ever saying that he would ‘cut off Dave Springer’s nuts… and use them as bookends,’

Sparks fly in cross-examination of ex-chief Peter Sloly at Freedom Convoy inquiry

Former Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly denied, deflected or debated most negative assertions about his performance during the Freedom Convoy protests made by the force’s lawyer during a very testy cross-examination at the Emergencies Act inquiry.

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Jamie Sarkonak: The Liberals’ illiberal diversity plan for government purchases

If you’ve dismissed identity politics as frivolous, artificial and American, you may want to reconsider. For Canadian businesses dealing with the federal government, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is very real, and its impact can be very expensive. Not only that — it’s unfair and illiberal.

The good news is that Trudeau and his ministers will be sentenced to lengthy prison terms at the future Truth and Reconciliation hearings covering Liberal Party Acts Of Racism against Canadian Citizens.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics", Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, WTF?

Just Stop Oil activists target MI5 and Home Office buildings

Environmental activists have sprayed orange paint on buildings in central London, calling for the government to halt new oil and gas licences.

Just Stop Oil targeted buildings used by the Home Office, MI5, the Bank of England and News Corp.

The group said the buildings were chosen as they represented “the four pillars that support and maintain the power of the fossil fuel economy”.

The Metropolitan Police said six people have been arrested.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Eco-Luddites

Shanghai Disney shuts over COVID, visitors unable to leave

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Oct 31 (Reuters) – Shanghai’s Disney Resort abruptly suspended operations on Monday to comply with COVID-19 prevention measures, with all visitors at the time of the announcement directed to stay in the park until they return a negative test for the virus.

The resort said at 11:39 a.m. local time (03:39 GMT) it would immediately shut the main theme park and surrounding areas including its shopping street until further notice to comply with virus curbs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", WTF?

OPP profiled Randy Hillier, convoy organizers and far-right group during protests, documents show

The Ontario Provincial Police’s intelligence efforts during last winter’s convoy protests included preparing a detailed profile of a provincial politician who was advocating against pandemic restrictions, along with similar profiles of a former RCMP sniper, a far-right group, several convoy organizers and others, newly released documents show.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

Greta Thunberg admits COP27 all about “greenwashing, lying and cheating”

Greta Thunberg: COP27 an opportunity for “greenwashing, lying and cheating”

LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Climate activist Greta Thunberg on Sunday called out next month’s United Nations climate summit in Egypt for being “held in a tourist paradise in a country that violates many basic human rights.”

Speaking at the London Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre where she was promoting her new book, “The Climate Book”, 19-year-old Thunberg dismissed the looming climate summit, known as COP27, as an opportunity for “people in power… to [use] greenwashing, lying and cheating.”

That sums up the green-scam in general.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

RCMP review prompted by employee’s arrest urges changes to bolster internal security

OTTAWA – A confidential RCMP review, conducted after the arrest of a senior employee for allegedly leaking classified information, calls for a fundamental shift in the security culture of the national police force to be led at the highest levels.

The newly disclosed report makes 43 recommendations, including training updates, stricter adherence to federal security screening standards and the possible introduction of random physical searches.

The review “confirms gaps in the security practices of the RCMP that could be closed or at least narrowed,” says a message in the report from the joint chairs of the exercise.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRCMP

Pierre Poilievre urges Chrystia Freeland to make good on her internal missive that new programs be funded by budget cuts

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is challenging Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland ahead of Thursday’s fall economic statement to make good on the instructions she gave cabinet ministers to fund new government programs with budget cuts.

In a note to Freeland Sunday citing Canada’s high inflation rate, interest rate hikes and the steep cost of living, Poilievre warned “the bubble is finally bursting and the bill is finally coming due.”

“For years my warnings that out-of-control spending would balloon inflation, and then interest rates, were ignored,” he wrote. “Now in a leaked letter the government seems to now agree with me.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada